The Environmental Education and Interpretation Center of the PPCB - CEIA – in Paredes de Coura, Portugal, designed by Atelier da Bouça, offers a beautiful example of symbiosis between the built and the natural. It does not seek protagonism. It avoids spectacle for its own sake. It is a presence that, over time, has blended with its surroundings, becoming discreet, almost shy, and respectful of what surrounds it.

Photographically, Nelson Garrido wanted to explore how the building merges with its environment: how the columns blend with the pine trunks, how the surfaces converse with the textures of concrete and wood. The weathered concrete, the time-marked wood, and the skin of the pines intertwine in a shared visual vocabulary.

Like a visitor walking through the landscape and discovering the architecture in fragments — sometimes hidden behind trunks, sometimes hinted at through the foliage — the photography here is also built through partial revelations. There is no intention to show everything at once. The image invites slowness, attentiveness, even abstraction; a gaze that lingers and searches.